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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Prepositional Phrases

For Teachers 5th - 6th
The class reads the book Heckedy Peg. Stopping to point out the prepositional phrases, the teacher models and guides the young scholars to deeper comprehension. Small groups collaborate to read A Sweet Smell of Roses. They thenfind the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Poetry: Metaphor

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate the uses of metaphor in poetry. They construct poems demonstrating the correct usage of metaphors.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Spanish Prepositional Phrases

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate their knowledge of Spanish prepositional phrases by reciting a poem and using hand motions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Preposition Pizazz

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine examples of poems and identify the prepositions in them. They write original poems using prepositional phrases and create illustrations to go with them.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mad-Libbing Your Way Into Modern Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Use a Mad-Libs like activity to create modern poetry! Writers will identify different words and their parts of speech and study "The Red Wheelbarrow" by Williams Carlos Williams. Then, use the sheets attached to craft your own poem! An...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Prepositional Practice

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this grammar worksheet, students identify the prepositional phrases, objects, and prepositions in 10 sentences. Students also read a poem called "World's Longest Sentence" and write their own version.
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Worksheet
K5 Learning

My Little Kitty

For Students 1st Standards
Can the small cat catch the rat? Find out in a short passage designed for first graders, complete with four comprehension questions that address details from the text.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Gearing up for Grammar

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students input autobiographical information to apply in a Diamante' poem that utilizes the different parts of speech. Students interact with each other sharing their autobiographical information completed on the database created....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Comma Exercises

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
Reinforce comma rules with this exercise. Learners add commas to a series of sentences and, using a list of eleven rules, match the rule they followed to each sentence. This worksheet would be best for classes that have had fairly...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Technology Newsletter

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discuss impact and value of modern technological inventions on society, contemplate world without technology, skim magazines and newspapers for advertisements highlighting modern technologies, and work with partner to create...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Color Personification Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, a book written by Mary O'Neill and Red Sings, and From Treetops: a Year in Colors, a book by Joyce Sidman, are used as mentor texts. Learners will brainstorm to collect different adjectives,...
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Start and Stop Game: Phrases

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find a prepositional phrase that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good phrase can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Prepositional Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] The students have studied prepositions. Students will use the pen/highlighting tool to answer the review questions. As a culminating project they will create a poem showing that they understand...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Playing With Prepositions Through Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play with and explore prepositions during a whole group reading of Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask, and then by composing and publishing prepositional poems based on the book's style.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: What's My Position, Preposition?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives the students opportunities to work with prepositions and prepositional phrases. Students construct their own sentences using the phrases and prepositions, sing a prepositional song,...